You know sometimes in church work (I won’t even call it ministry) we get caught up in the mundane. It doesn’t matter how big your church is or how busy your calendar is many times it just seems like you are doing “stuff” not ministry. How many of you spend more time working on sermon slides, pro presenter and blogging than pouring into people. Now, here is the pathetic confession…I actually enjoy the mundane stuff. I DO like graphics, service planning, retreat planning, strategy sessions and studying. However, life change (true life change) rarely takes place during these moments. We tell ourselves that excellence to details and creativity provides an opportunity for people to stay engaged in our messages. We use words like creative, relevant and engage to justify countless hours at our Macs. Now for the really SAD part, even though I see the flaw in this I still plan on creating a graphic for our “Christ Mass” program. I am currently blogging and I have a strategy session planned for tomorrow night.
BUT, I do recognize that most people are not impacted by that “stuff”. Most are impacted by love and time. Case in point. 6 weeks ago a 16 year old girl came to our your program and no one thought much of her (as matter of fact she got into an argument with another girl and one of our volunteers.). That next Sunday her mother brought her to me and asked if I could spend some time talking to her because she had made some bad decisions. I agreed. That 1st session of meeting with her was heart breaking…she was a shell of a girl. She had been abused, she had been broken emotionally, physically and spiritually. She was not suicidal but she was numb. Her eyes were lifeless. Over the course of the last several weeks this young lady has surrendered her life to Jesus, is plugged into a small group and is pouring into God’s word. Her mother says she is behaving better at home and school and told me yesterday that she seems like a different girl. She is.
We need more life victories like that. We need to see more teens give up sin and surrender to the Jesus that offers freedom. I need to be better.
Sean Rheaume 